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WILLIAM S. KIMBALL, OF RQCHESTER, NW YORK.

Lette/rs Patent No. 86,415, dated Februa/ry 2, 1869.

IMPROVED TOBACCO-PRESS.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIA M S. KiMBALL, of the city of Rochester, inthe State of New York, have invented a. new and useful Tobacco-Press;and I do hereby declaire that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing,making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a vert-icalsection.

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the clamp and lillingmoulds.

Figure 3 is a top view of bags rest while being filled.

rIhe nature of my invention will be understood from the drawings andspecifications.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willdescribe its construction and operation.

. On a suitable frame, A, forming a base, I erect two standards, B,which are connected, at their tops, by a cross-bar, C.

0u the inside of each standard B there are attached guides, a.

I tit a cross-head, D, between the standards, having a gr.:ove in eachend, to receive the guides a, which retain it in its vertical movement.

The cross-heac'l is operated by a toggle-jointed lever, E, which ispivoted,at-oue end, to the cross-head D, as shown atc, and sustained bysuitable braces, extending from the top to the lower part of the lever,nearly to the ends of the cross-head. The other lend of the lever ispivoted to the cross-bar C.

To the joint of the lever E, a shaft, f, is pivoted, which may either beoperated by hand, or driven back and forward by power which will give avertical motion platform?, on which the 'to the cross-head D.

To this cross-head D, I attach, by hinges, a piece of wood or metal,R,Vwhich forms an adjustable dischargebar, when turned down as shown indotted lines in iig. 1,and when not used, is held up by a spring, x, asshown in full lines, iig. 1'.

On the frame A, I place a platform, P, figs. l and 3, that has openings,b, figs. 1 and 3, in the side, under the discharge-bar R, that receivesthe filling-mould H, when it is desired to press the bags off them.

In iig. 2, the arrangement of a clamp, G, is shown, which is formed loftwo pieces of wood or metal, held together by the screw (l. In the endsof the clamp, holes of any desired shape, to suit the shape of the bagto be filled, are made. In the holes I iit metal filling-moulds, H, thatextend to the bottom, or nearly7 so, of the bag, as shown in figs. 1 and2.

In the lilling-moulds I fit plungers, o, that operate on the material tobe pressed, by the downwardV movement of the cross-head D. The clamp Gmust be placed atthe bottom of' the filling-moulds, or nearly so, tosustain them while the material is being pressed.

The object of my invention is to make a press for filling tobacco, hops,&c., in bales or bags.

The operation is as follows:

The lling-moulds H are put into the bags, as shown in figs. 1 and 2.They are then put into the clamps G, as shown in 2, and placed on theplatform P, as shown in full lines, 1i g. 1, under the cross-head D. Thecross-head D is caused to move vertically, by a horizontal reciprocatingmotion being given to the rod or shaft j'. As the cross-head D 'movesdownward, it forces the plunger e on the material in the bags, andpresses it, and the clamp G prevents the moulds and bags from bursting.After the material is suiiciently pressed, the clamp and moulds aremoved forward until the moulds may settle down into the openings b, as

shown in dot-ted lines, iig. l. The screw d is slackened, thedischarge-bar R is turned down, as shown in dotted lines, iig. l. Thecross-head, in its downward motion, discharges the bag, with itsfilling, from the mould, by pressing on the plungers e.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The arrangement of the toggle-jointed lever E and cross-head D, incombination with the adjustable discharge-bar R, the plunger o, clamp G,and the llingmoulds H, all acting conj ointlypas and for the purposesset forth.

WM. S., KIMBALL. Witnesses:

J As. LORENZO GAGE, Im A. HEBBARD.

